Kaplan - SAT advanced practice: prep for 1600

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Dont be scared of the SAT. Why? Because we know whats on the exam, and we know exactly how you should prepare for it. Kaplan has been teaching students how to succeed on the SAT for more than 75 yearslonger than anyone else, period. Students who are working toward top scores know that they need to practice the most advanced concepts. If your goal is to earn a top score, this SAT Advanced Prep book will help you do just that!

The SAT is 3 hours long, or 3 hours and 50 minutes long if you choose to complete the optional Essay Test. It is made up of mostly multiple-choice questions that test two subject areas: Math and Evidence-Based Reading and Writing. The latter subject area is split into a Reading Test and a Writing & Language Test.

SAT scoring can be pretty complex. You will receive one score ranging from 200 to 800 for Evidence-Based Reading and Writing and another for Math. Your overall SAT score will range from 400 to 1600 and is calculated by adding these two scores together. You will receive a separate score for the Essay Test, if you choose to take it.

In addition to your overall scores, you will receive subscores that provide a deeper analysis of your SAT performance. The SAT also gives you a percentile ranking, which allows you to compare your scores with those of other high school students who took the test. For example, a student with a percentile of 63 has earned a score better than 63 percent of test takers.

As a general rule, students take the SAT at least once in their junior year, often taking it for the first time in March. The SAT is administered on select Saturdays during the year. Sunday testing is available for students who cannot take the Saturday test because of religious observances. Check the official College Board website at www.collegeboard.org for the most up-to-date test dates. Note that you must register for the SAT approximately one month in advance to avoid paying a late fee.

This book contains hundreds of practice questions. Each question is an SAT question type you will see on Test Day and provides you with plenty of opportunities to assess and practice your strengths and weaknesses before Test Day. Answering practice questions is important, but just as important is understanding why you got a particular question right or wrong. When youre done answering one or more questions, check out the detailed Answers and Explanations at the end of the book. These thorough explanations provide both the correct answers and strategic advice to help you practice thinking like an expert! In addition, every explanation includes the difficulty level of each question. All of this practice is geared toward one thing: getting you the most points on Test Day!

Follow these steps to get the most out of these practice questions:

1. Read the Test Overviews before beginning practice questions within that unit.
2. Assess your strengths and weaknesses. After you finish one set of practice questions, go to the back of the book to check your answers AND read the explanations for questions you missed as well as for questions on which you guessed.
3. Use the minutes per question or per passage rates for each Test to create timed practice question sets. For Math, you should think about how many minutes per question, while for Reading and Writing & Language, you should think about how many minutes per passage.

Chapter 1

The SAT Reading Test will focus on your comprehension and reasoning skills when presented with challenging extended prose passages taken from a variety of content areas.

Passages will draw from U.S. and World Literature, History/Social Studies, and Science. One set of History/Social Studies or Science passages will be paired. History/Social Studies and Science passages can also be accompanied by graphical representations of data such as charts, graphs, tables, and so on.

The multiple-choice questions for each passage will be arranged in order from the more general to the more specific so that you can actively engage with the entire passage before answering questions about details.